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The evangelization of Mexico. Spanish conquerors saw it as their right and their duty to convert indigenous populations to Catholicism. Because Catholicism had played such an important role in the Reconquista (Catholic reconquest) of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims, the Catholic Church in essence became another arm of the Spanish government, since the crown was granted sweeping powers ...
The crown established New Spain as a viceroyalty in 1535, appointing as viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, an aristocrat loyal to the monarch rather than the conqueror Cortés. New Spain was the first of the viceroyalties that Spain created, the second being Peru in 1542, following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Both New Spain and Peru had ...
The Viceroyalty of New Spain (1521–1821) — a part of the Spanish Empire in North America and Maritime Southeast Asia. Centered in Colonial Mexico , and reaching to the Spanish West Indies (Caribbean), the Spanish colonial territories in present day United States , and the Spanish East Indies (Asia).
History of the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain — from the 16th to 19th centuries in North America, the Caribbean, and the East Indies. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Pre-conquest ethno-demographic map of the area that was to become 'New Galicia" Spanish exploration of the area began in 1531 with Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán's expedition. . He named the main city founded in the area Villa de Guadalajara after his birthplace and called the area he conquered "la Conquista del Espíritu Santo de la Mayor España" ("the Conquest of the Holy Spirit of Greater Spain
O'Crouley's description of New Spain in the eighteenth century is a valuable contribution to scholarship, mostly unknown until the late twentieth century when it was published. The original manuscript comprises 202 leaves bound in red leather in the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid , Ms. 972.02.
Centuries in the history of the Viceroyalty of New Spain — in Spanish colonial North America and the Spanish East Indies. Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
The Spanish captured all these states in 1523-1524. The corrigemento was established in 1534. For a short time Ameca and Tenamastlan were separate alcaldia mayores, then for a few years after 1601 a joint alcaldia mayor, but then they were united with this domain.